From a universal perspective, the Milky Way is pretty small, but from where we sit on the outskirts of the galaxy, it is absolutely massive. When astronomers look into the center of the galaxy, they ...

The fifth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a close view of a distant and colorful spiral ...

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The Milky Way has just been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, with artificial intelligence helping astronomers track the ...

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: a galaxy with an odd light signature, which they attribute to its gas ...

The newly-discovered GS-NDG-9422 galaxy appears as a faint blur in this James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) image. It could help astronomers better understand galaxy evolution in ...

A research team in Japan has created a groundbreaking Milky Way simulation that follows more than 100 billion stars with a level of detail that was once thought impossible.

If proven to be correct, then the observations could rule out types of "warm" dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...